Abhilash's Tag

I was tagged by Abhilash.

5 people who top your shit list….. and why
1.My cousin’s friend. There are some people whom you hate for no reason at all.
2.My biology tuition teacher in 12^th standard- RamaMurthy. He used to slap us for practically no reason. For
ex. He used to conduct class at 6 in he morning and used to slap us if he caught is dozing off… Insane!

3. A guy named Vinod who used to stalk my friend.
4. BJP for stirring up the Rama Janma Bhoomi wave.
5. The customs guy at Milwaukee airport. In a queue with 10 odd people I was the only Indian. While others only went under the electronic detector he made me come out of the queue, sat me down in a corner, thoroughly checked my bags and at the end saw the chain in my neck and asked me – "Does that protect you from evil?"

Close brushes with death/danger
I was learning to drive our new santro in 1997-98. When I was with my dad in the car and I was behind the wheel, something in me said - "Brake". I immediately stopped and got off the car. I saw that I had stopped the car a couple of inches from a guy sleeping on the road. Thank you god!

5 Preferable modes of suicide, in descending order
1. Watch Matrix 1, 2 and 3 three times each without a break.
2. Jumping down a cliff - would be adventurous and is a fool proof suicide method.
3. Injecting a high doze of narcotic in the body - Die with pleasure
4. Hang to death
5. Shoot in the face - Absolutely no chance of survival!

5 Guilty pleasures
1. Eating a double cheese burger after a heavy workout.
2. Telling a lie to my mom when I can read it in her eye that she has caught me lying, but does not say anything..
3. Going out for coffee at 12 in the night when you know that you have lots to study.
4. I used to read the History text book in my 10th standard just so that I fall asleep.
5. Keeping an alarm at 6 AM when you know that there is no chance of getting up and seeing the sun rise. It is the morning sleep that is most pleasurable.

5 things you never want to forget
1. The day I got a letter of joining from Infy.
2. The first movie Sandeep and I watched together. Titanic.
3. The first time I ate fish in Mayur's house.
4. Shanmugam Master the puncher shop guy near Life Style, Bangalore.
5. The day chili left to IIMB and Sandeep left to do his MS. I was made aware of the fact that as time passes people drift apart.

5 things you wish to forget
1. Getting slapped by an auto driver when I ran my bike into a woman crossing the road. I was in 12 ^th
standard then. Nothing happened to the woman.
2. Telling my violin teacher, on his face that I would not like to learn violin. I did not want to learn, okay. No
excuse for being rude! Bad!
3. Swearing at my friend (I used the word bitch) once when I was really upset. Usage of such words, WRONG!
4. Getting a 35 in my 10th std math preparatory exam. My mom was the teacher. She cried all day as she felt humiliated before all teachers..
5. Catching my dad smoke. I had cried for 3 days. Probably that is why I don’t smoke.

5 really exotic dishes you have tried
1. Chicken in buffalo Wild Wings and Empire
2. Kerala food in Coconut Grove
3. Holige that my mom makes. No match to it.
4. Biriyani that sandeep's mom makes
5. Kori rotti and chicken curry in Mayur's house and shetty uncle’s house.

Strangest dream you ever had

A Lion chasing me in my dreams. I wake up with my heart pounding. Drink a glass of water and go back to sleep and the lion starts chasing me again. Then I go sleep next to my mom. It does not come there.. :-)

5 most valued personal possessions

1.My Immaturity

2.My Bullet Electra

3.My Hero hawk NuAge bike

4.My house in CanaraBank Colony.

5.My friends.

5 favorite superheroes….. and why
1. Sri Krishna - for obvious reasons – babes! A true super hero.
2. Mithun Charavarti – he said – "yeh glass bullet proof ho sakta hain par patthar proof nahi.."
3. Hanuman - I am just fond of monkeys.
4. Spiderman - I always think if I could be like him, I would swing my way to office in 10 minutes.
5. Rajinikanth - He spit a bullet with a knife and dodged bullets with mud pots.

The magic lamp.

Chili told me he other day - that he read it somewhere that - Be very careful about what you wish. You might get it.

Ofen, there is a conscious mind wishing for something and a subconscious mind hoping for the opposite just so that you can carryon with your fruitless lazy activities only because it would be a touch easier. [I can quote a lot of examples but I think it would be inappropriate to be shared on the blog.]

In the last few days I have at some point wished for things to not happen for me only because I was confused (and ofcourse, I wanted to carry on with my fruitless lazy activities). I got what I wished for. I was disappointed at my wish coming true...

So be very careful about your wishes, the genie is waiting to grant you your wish...

Instinctive thinking

I term this my theory. If anyone had come-up with the theory before me, I am ready to pay royalty...

Practically no one thinks practically always. There is an instinctive part and a practical part. Practicality comes only after instincts fade away. Does it not? When instinctive thinking gets serious, you start basing your decisions on instincts. I don’t see a problem as such basing decisions on instincts. The advantage is that your decision changes every few days. In light of practicality, this could be a disadvantage. An instinctive thinker cannot be termed confused- though he is a touch better than the eternally confused, I would rather rate them equal. The difference between an instinctive thinker and a confused mind is that an instinctive thinker is perfectly sure of what he wants at any particular point in time, but changes what he wants with the morning alarm every day, while a confused mind has more than one decision on mind at every point in time.

.... Forget it; I have changed my mind about writing this blog. Instinctive thinker, I am!!